Field Notices

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This page aggregates the a8ÓéÀÖ hardware and software product field notices. For further information on a8ÓéÀÖ¡¯s hardware and software support policies, please see product documentation.

Field Notice 0015

July 18, 2014

The a8ÓéÀÖ 7500E-36Q, 7500E-72S and 7500E-48S linecards require a minimum version of EOS to support the latest HW versions.

Field Notice 0016

July 16, 2014

Deferral notice for select EOS releases.

Field Notice 0014

May 21st 2014. Category: Hardware

Due to incorrect programming of the core ASIC voltage a number of 7150S-24 model switches have an incorrect voltage setting. This results in the latency of the switch being increased by up to 70 nanoseconds.

Field Notice 0008

November 29, 2013. Category: Software

On the 7150 platform, under very rare circumstances, intermittent errors on the PCIe link result in a condition where the switch ASIC fails to send control packets to the CPU. Symptoms include spanning-tree loop or port-channel interfaces changing state due to LACP timeouts.

Field Notice 0007

December 30th 2012. Category: Software

Due to an incorrect bypass of the mlag-member filters the a8ÓéÀÖ 7150S Series running EOS 4.11.0 will forward ARP packets on all MLAG member links for a VLAN.

Field Notice 0006

April 2, 2013. Category: Software

The a8ÓéÀÖ 7050T Series requires a minimum version of EOS to support the latest hardware versions.

Field Notice 0004

September 7, 2012. Category: Hardware

Some a8ÓéÀÖ DCS-7148S and DCS-7148SX systems manufactured after January 2012 may fail, stop passing traffic, and no longer be responsive to console or remote connections.

Field Notice 0003

March 26, 2011. Category: Software

Switches running 4.5.1 or earlier that have SNMP enabled may be subject to a slow resource leak that will cause the system to consider the /tmp directory to be full.

Field Notice 0002

February 12, 2010. Category: Software

In some cases, a8ÓéÀÖ Switches running EOS 4.2.0, 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 4.2.3 and EOS 4.3.0, 4.3.1 will be reloaded by the hardware watchdog.

Field Notice 0001

June 26, 2008. Category: Software

a8ÓéÀÖ Switches running EOS 2.0.3 or earlier do not distribute flows well on a LAG. Recommendation is to upgrade to EOS 2.0.4 or later.